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Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

Other quotes by Soren Kierkegaard

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Marriage
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Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Age
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Other Quotes from
Experience
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. Youre dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle. – Quincy Jones

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Experience

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius

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Experience

When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely. – Jane Smiley

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Experience

God is only a great imaginative experience. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Experience

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The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society. – John Paul Stevens

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At a familys most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved ones sacrifice and service. – Dave Reichert

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There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I dont necessarily want to be like them. Im to happy being myself. – James Darcy

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